Break Me From This Bond/Stay With Me - Chapter 3
Title: Break Me From This Bond/Stay With Me
Author: Irvine304
Rating: R
Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Romance
Pairing: Leon/Squall x Cloud
Warnings: OOC, shounen-ai, cussing, WAFF, Flangst, adult themes
Summary: Cloud's lost everyone who's ever given his life worth... There was nothing left, and he was becoming one with that. Until an angel with black wings appeared before him, to prove his life had worth. LeonxCloud AU
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy © Square Enix
Break Me From This Bond/Stay With Me
Chapter 3: The Sent Angel
“Who are you? What are you doing here? What do you want?” Cloud questioned the man, angrily.
“Cloud Strife…I was sent here to return something to you.”
“Return something?”
“Your will…to live…”
-oOo-
Cloud stared at the man anxiously; yep he was totally freaking him out.
“Get lost.” Cloud ordered the man, but knowing the man most likely wouldn’t go, Cloud turned to go himself. He didn’t want to be near this man…
“No…” Cloud felt the man grab him by the wrist, “You’re coming with me.”
Cloud turned and went to hit the man, “Let go of me!”
The man caught Cloud’s fist with his free hand and twisted it behind Cloud’s back while pulling Cloud to him. “Stop being difficult, or you’re just going to get hurt.”
Cloud growled in pain as he looked up at the brunet, he was flush against the other man’s body, trapped; he couldn’t break his hold on him. Cloud tried to struggle anyways, the man pulled on his twisted arm, Cloud yelped in pain.
“What did I just say?”
“What do you want!?”
The man lowered his voice to a growl, “I want you to shut up and stop drawing attention to yourself! I’m not going to hurt you- “You already have!” “Shut up!”
“Cloud?”
Cloud turned his head as much as his position would allow, and found Yuffie staring between him and the brunet. “Are…you alright? Should I…Is there a problem here?” she asked Cloud nervously, as she kept glancing to the brunet.
The man lowered his voice further and moved closer to Cloud’s ear, “Just give me five minutes to explain.”
“Why should I even give you one?” Cloud whispered back angrily
The man was silent for a moment and then replied,
“Because if you don’t…” he pressed his lips to Cloud’s ear, “you’ll be the death of your only remaining friends…”
Cloud went still as the brunet pulled away to lock eyes with the blonde.
Is he serious…?
Cloud thought uneasily as he franticly searched those cold eyes for the answer.
“Cloud?” Yuffie called to him again, more apprehensively this time.
The brunet released his hold on the blonde, and Cloud turn his body half away from him to face Yuffie, he feigned a smile and replied, “No, no um…I’m fine I was…just…” his face fell as he turned to the brunet for help. The man was observing Yuffie but when he noticed the blonde’s stare he shifted so his gaze fell upon him. It’s strange, Cloud thought as stared into the man’s eyes. He didn’t find this man to be threatening, not at all. Though he felt this man was going to prevent something Cloud didn’t want to stop, he didn’t feel threatened, or scared…strangely enough the man made him feel …safe…safe in a way he… couldn’t explain…
“He… This is my friend…” Cloud said turning to Yuffie.
Yuffie looked confused, “Your…friend?”
Cloud blinked a few times before replying, “Uh, yeah.”
Yuffie raise an eyebrow and shifted slightly, placing a hand on her hip, titling her head, looking at Cloud skeptically, “Really now?”
“Yes…”
“Then what’s his name?”
“Uh…” Shoot, shoot, shoot-
“Leon.” answered the brunet from behind him.
“Leon? Alright then…” Yuffie said, moving her hand from her hip to her chin, “Then how did you two get to know each other? How and where did you meet? And how come you‘ve never said anything about him Cloud!?”
Cloud flinched involuntarily at the rise in Yuffie’s voice, and he attempted to reply, even though he had no idea what to say for lack of imagination, “I…he…we…”
“We’re lovers.”
Both heads turned to the brunet, known now as Leon. Both pairs of eyes went wide in disbelief and both mouths dropped open wide.
He didn’t…no, he didn’t just…
“He didn’t tell you because he was afraid you wouldn’t accept a relationship so soon after…so soon after his other lover had passed.”
He did! And he’s not going to stop either!
Cloud began to frantically give Leon hand gestures to try and signal him to stop.
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! --
“No Cloud, it‘s time to let your friends know about us. I‘m tired of hiding it and I know you are too.”
All Cloud could do was gap at Leon.
I-I…I’m going to kill him, right here, right now, I’m going to beat this man into the ground…
“Cloud!”
Cloud brought his thoughts away from different scenarios of murdering the brunet and turned to face a surprised and half gaping Yuffie.
“Is that true?”
Cloud looked between Leon and Yuffie, Yep…I guess this is the story we’re sticking with…
Cloud sighed, “Yeah…I guess…”
Yuffie tilted her head, “You guess?”
“He’s ashamed of me…”
Both turned to Leon. Cloud was glaring, No, I just want to kill you….
“Cloud, I don’t believe you.”
Cloud turned to her, “Huh-What-Why not?”
“Well, first off, you answered me with ‘I guess’ and second… Who could be ashamed of such a beautiful man?!” Yuffie exclaimed gesturing her arms out to Leon.
Cloud flinched again and sighed, “Well, I really don’t care what you think. Now…we need to get going…”
Cloud turned and Yuffie ran in front of him, holding her arms out to stop him, “No Cloud. I’m letting you leave with this man, unless I have proof he’s your boyfriend.”
Cloud rolled his eyes as he replied, “What do you want? Photographic evidence?”
“No, no. I’m not gunna ask that much. Just one simple gesture of love is all.”
“Eh?” Cloud asked, looking to her from the corner of his eye.
Yuffie gripped her arms behind her back, as she rocked on her heels, and a smirk grew on her lips, “Kiss him.”
Cloud blinked as his eyes widened in disbelief, before he abruptly dropped his head submission. Of course one of my few remaining friends is a major yaoi fan…
Cloud lifted his head slightly, “So what’re you going to do if I refuse and leave anyways?”
“…Call the cops.”
“…You can’t be serious.” Cloud said placing a hand to his head in annoyance.
“Serious as a heart attack, Cloud. Now…” Yuffie pulled out her cell and dialed the number, then held it so Cloud could see but it was still out of his reach. “Do it, or as soon as I press call I’ll have the police on the phone and I’ll have your sexy friend here arrested.”
Cloud glared at her, “Fine!” Then he turned and grabbed Leon roughly by the back of his neck and pulled him down into a chased kiss. Leon’s eyes had widened initially but went back to normal as their lips made contact. A neutral expression colored Leon’s face during the kiss as he watched Cloud’s tensely closed eyes.
An undesired thought crossed Cloud’s mind when he initiated the kiss, which caused the kiss to last longer than he intended it to: …his lips are soft…
Cloud pulled away from Leon, not even allowing a single glace at him and turned to face Yuffie, “There, can we go now?”
“Nooo, that was a sucky kiss. Give him some tongue action!”
Cloud just started at Yuffie in astonishment before recovering and turning to Leon, “Do you even have a car?”
Leon looked to Cloud for a moment before turning his head, shrugging, “Sort of…”
Cloud raised an eyebrow, “Sort of, what the heck does that mean?”
Leon turned and walked over to the funeral coach park near by. Cloud recognized this coach as being the one used to carry Aerith’s casket. Cloud frowned slightly and followed Leon over. Leon got in and Cloud leaned into the open window.
“…Did you steal this?”
Leon placed a finger to his own lips and then used the same to point over to the passengers seat, “Get in.”
“CLOUD WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?”
Cloud shivered uncomfortably and hurried over and got into the car. Buckling Cloud asked again, “Did you?!”
Leon turned to Cloud, but before he could reply rustling was herd in the back, along with, “Mmm! Mmmm!”
They both turned to find a chubby middle-aged man in only a wife beater and white cotton boxers covered with red hearts, hogtied and gagged, in the back seat.
Cloud turned from the man to Leon, “What the hell?!” gesturing with his arms to the poor man tied up in the back.
Leon turned to Cloud, with his ever-unchanging neutral expression, “What?”
“What!? What the hell-…err, L…Leon…?”
Leon raised an eyebrow to Cloud in response to pause and to the uncertain way he pronounced his name.
Cloud shook off his own uncertainty of the brunet’s name and continued,
“Anyhow…What the hells-a-matter with you!? Did you tie up this guy and…” Cloud stopped and looked the brunet up and down, noticing how the cloths were still just a little too wide for the man, “And…steal his clothes? What are you, some kind of serial-stalking-hobo? What did he ever do to you!? For the matter…what the hell did I do!? Why are you stalking me? What do you want? Why did you attack the poor hogtied man in the back? What are you some kind of nudist who wanted to come back to society and attacked the first guy you saw for clothes cause you burned all yours? And what would you want with me? I’m not going to help you, you Freak!”
Leon cut him off there, by holding up a hand to silence Cloud, and began to speak, "Alright, shut up and listen. First off: I am not a nudist or a...whatever else you called me. Second: Who cares about that guy?” Leon said gesturing to the hogtied-and-gagged man in the back, with his thumb, “Yes I stole his clothes, big deal, I needed cloths and its not like you know him or really care. And third: if you really want to know why I was sent to you, you’ll shut up and give me your address so that we can have somewhere private to talk. And then I’ll tell you everything. Deal?”
Cloud stared at Leon for a moment before settling back down in his seat. After a moment of silence passed Cloud replied softly, “12 Radiant Drive…”
A ghost of a smile touched the brunet’s lips and he turned from Cloud to start the car.
-oOo-
They pulled up alongside a tall brick apartment building, which was closely netted within the city.
“This the place?” the brunet asked, shutting off the ignition, and turning to Cloud.
Cloud continued to stare out the window at the cold, lonely building that was his home, his cage, and the only place left for him to go…
He closed his eyes and sighed, “Yeah…this is it.”
They exited the car and as Leon moved by the blonde to go into the building. Cloud caught him by arm as he passed, stopping him. “Wait.”
Leon turned to him, “What?”
Cloud gave him an incredulous look before replying, “’What?’ What about the funeral couch driver? You’re just going to leave him there? Tied up, in his underwear, in the backseat of his work vehicle?”
The brunet’s cold eyes moved from Cloud to the said vehicle, “Oh…right.”
Leon moved passed Cloud to the vehicle, and Cloud released him as he went.
Leon opened the door to the back of the coach to where alleged man was promptly kicking at the far end window, trying desperately to either escape or get help. Both seeming rather futile at this point; for one, Leon was here to free him and second, even if he weren’t, no one would come around to free the man, the blonde lived in a more calm area of the medium populated city not to mention the light drizzle from above that would prove to become worse as the day wore on, would keep any other bystanders inside. In short, it was a shitty day and not a soul would be found wandering these streets in this weather to help some guy trapped in a funeral coach of all places. Yes, what this man was attempting was rather hopeless.
“Hey.” Leon called to the man in his low neutral voice. The man jumped at the sound and slowly turned to see to whom the voice belonged. At his first glance of the once naked man that had attacked him earlier, his eyes widened and he began to panic.
Leon sighed touching his forehead lightly with one hand out of annoyance. Then he looked back to the panicking man, “Hey! Shut the hell up!”
The man froze looking to Leon with terror filled eyes. Leon gave the man an annoyed look and then rolled his eyes as he responded, “Oh don’t give me that look. Now… I’m going to cut you loose, and you will not inform the police or anyone else, for the matter, what happened… Got it?!”
The man jumped and jerked his head quickly to nod his response.
Cloud sighed, “Be reasonable Leon. You probably already have this guy’s job in jeopardy, don’t make it seem like he was messing around.”
Leon leaned back out of the door a bit to turn to Cloud, “Eh?”
Cloud sighed again and titled his head as he looked back to Leon, “Ohh C’mon Leon! Don’t tell me it won’t look bad if this guy show back up to work with no explanation for disappearing from the funeral for over half an hour.”
”Fine…” Leon grumbled, turning back to the petrified man. “Look, you can use the same story if you want but don’t you dare give an anyone my description or name or I will kill you.”
The man’s eyes widened. Sighing, Cloud just shook his head.
What an idiot…
Leon went into the back and began to untie the fidgeting man as quickly as he could. Dropping the final rope to the side, he tore the tape from the man’s face.
“Ow!” the man yelped touching his face were it had begun to burn from the removal of the tape.
“Sorry.” Leon responded to the man with no feeling, discarding the tape to the floor.
“Now look,” Leon said as he turned back to the man, “the keys are still in the ignition and you’re free to go. I’m sorry, but I wont be returning these cloths for I have none…”
Leon paused for a moment, then moved to remove the over coat. “Here.” Leon said handing the coat back to the shaken man, “You can have this back…” Leon waited while the man put his coat back on before moving back to exit the car, but paused before he shut the door and leaned back in, “Sorry for the trouble.”
Leon shut the door and turned to Cloud, “Feel better?” he half asked, turning to go into the building.
“What? Me feel better? You shouldn’t have done it in the first place!” Cloud called to Leon, running to the building after him.
-oOo-
Cloud pulled his apartment door shut behind him and looked up to converse with Leon. But before he could even utter a word, Leon had pinned him by the shoulders to the door he had shut only a moment ago. Leaning in close, his eyes were locked with Cloud’s as he asked, “So you want to know why I’m here? What I meant when I said 'I was sent here to return your will to live'?”
Cloud watched the swirling grey/blue color of the eyes staring straight into his…
“What…oh. Yeah, tell me.”
Leon watched Cloud a moment longer then he closed his eyes. In a flash, black wings protruded out from behind Leon. Cloud gasped from the site. The wings twitched slightly and then stretched their full length (that Cloud assumed to be over 10 feet) before returning to a resting position on its master’s back.
“I…”
Cloud’s attention moved back to Leon at the sound of his voice.
He didn’t look well. He was pale and sweating slightly as he tried to catch his breath. The wings seemed to be putting a lot of strain on him.
“I…am a sent angel…I was sent to you…to save your life, for you have lost your will to live after losing so many of your loved ones…” Leon paused, lowering his head, breathing deeply, appearing to try and catch his breath.
“Sent…by who?” Cloud asked after a moment.
Leon lifted his sweat stained face to Cloud and replied, “By a higher being…perhaps you would call it a God…”
Cloud paused for a moment scrunching his face, “So, what? Is God creating some sort of suicidal hot line?”
Leon looked astounded at Cloud for a moment before placing a hand to his head in exasperation and replying, “No, you idiot. They’re trying to give you a second chance.”
“But, wait…” just as Cloud was gathering more questions to ask, he noticed Leon falter and fall to the ground. “Leon!”
Cloud attempted to catch the brunet but only succeeded in falling with him.
“Oww…” Cloud said rubbing his head, which he had hit against the doorframe as he fell. He looked down to find Leon collapsed in his lap. Cloud looked at him thoughtfully,
“A ’sent angel’, huh?” Cloud stated, lightly brushing a few hairs out of Leon’s face, “What the hell does that mean? …How do you plan on saving me?”
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A/N: Thanks for reading ^-^ I hope you enjoyed, review if you like.
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Author: Irvine304
Rating: R
Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Romance
Pairing: Leon/Squall x Cloud
Warnings: OOC, shounen-ai, cussing, WAFF, Flangst, adult themes
Summary: Cloud's lost everyone who's ever given his life worth... There was nothing left, and he was becoming one with that. Until an angel with black wings appeared before him, to prove his life had worth. LeonxCloud AU
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy © Square Enix
Break Me From This Bond/Stay With Me
Chapter 3: The Sent Angel
“Who are you? What are you doing here? What do you want?” Cloud questioned the man, angrily.
“Cloud Strife…I was sent here to return something to you.”
“Return something?”
“Your will…to live…”
-oOo-
Cloud stared at the man anxiously; yep he was totally freaking him out.
“Get lost.” Cloud ordered the man, but knowing the man most likely wouldn’t go, Cloud turned to go himself. He didn’t want to be near this man…
“No…” Cloud felt the man grab him by the wrist, “You’re coming with me.”
Cloud turned and went to hit the man, “Let go of me!”
The man caught Cloud’s fist with his free hand and twisted it behind Cloud’s back while pulling Cloud to him. “Stop being difficult, or you’re just going to get hurt.”
Cloud growled in pain as he looked up at the brunet, he was flush against the other man’s body, trapped; he couldn’t break his hold on him. Cloud tried to struggle anyways, the man pulled on his twisted arm, Cloud yelped in pain.
“What did I just say?”
“What do you want!?”
The man lowered his voice to a growl, “I want you to shut up and stop drawing attention to yourself! I’m not going to hurt you- “You already have!” “Shut up!”
“Cloud?”
Cloud turned his head as much as his position would allow, and found Yuffie staring between him and the brunet. “Are…you alright? Should I…Is there a problem here?” she asked Cloud nervously, as she kept glancing to the brunet.
The man lowered his voice further and moved closer to Cloud’s ear, “Just give me five minutes to explain.”
“Why should I even give you one?” Cloud whispered back angrily
The man was silent for a moment and then replied,
“Because if you don’t…” he pressed his lips to Cloud’s ear, “you’ll be the death of your only remaining friends…”
Cloud went still as the brunet pulled away to lock eyes with the blonde.
Is he serious…?
Cloud thought uneasily as he franticly searched those cold eyes for the answer.
“Cloud?” Yuffie called to him again, more apprehensively this time.
The brunet released his hold on the blonde, and Cloud turn his body half away from him to face Yuffie, he feigned a smile and replied, “No, no um…I’m fine I was…just…” his face fell as he turned to the brunet for help. The man was observing Yuffie but when he noticed the blonde’s stare he shifted so his gaze fell upon him. It’s strange, Cloud thought as stared into the man’s eyes. He didn’t find this man to be threatening, not at all. Though he felt this man was going to prevent something Cloud didn’t want to stop, he didn’t feel threatened, or scared…strangely enough the man made him feel …safe…safe in a way he… couldn’t explain…
“He… This is my friend…” Cloud said turning to Yuffie.
Yuffie looked confused, “Your…friend?”
Cloud blinked a few times before replying, “Uh, yeah.”
Yuffie raise an eyebrow and shifted slightly, placing a hand on her hip, titling her head, looking at Cloud skeptically, “Really now?”
“Yes…”
“Then what’s his name?”
“Uh…” Shoot, shoot, shoot-
“Leon.” answered the brunet from behind him.
“Leon? Alright then…” Yuffie said, moving her hand from her hip to her chin, “Then how did you two get to know each other? How and where did you meet? And how come you‘ve never said anything about him Cloud!?”
Cloud flinched involuntarily at the rise in Yuffie’s voice, and he attempted to reply, even though he had no idea what to say for lack of imagination, “I…he…we…”
“We’re lovers.”
Both heads turned to the brunet, known now as Leon. Both pairs of eyes went wide in disbelief and both mouths dropped open wide.
He didn’t…no, he didn’t just…
“He didn’t tell you because he was afraid you wouldn’t accept a relationship so soon after…so soon after his other lover had passed.”
He did! And he’s not going to stop either!
Cloud began to frantically give Leon hand gestures to try and signal him to stop.
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! --
“No Cloud, it‘s time to let your friends know about us. I‘m tired of hiding it and I know you are too.”
All Cloud could do was gap at Leon.
I-I…I’m going to kill him, right here, right now, I’m going to beat this man into the ground…
“Cloud!”
Cloud brought his thoughts away from different scenarios of murdering the brunet and turned to face a surprised and half gaping Yuffie.
“Is that true?”
Cloud looked between Leon and Yuffie, Yep…I guess this is the story we’re sticking with…
Cloud sighed, “Yeah…I guess…”
Yuffie tilted her head, “You guess?”
“He’s ashamed of me…”
Both turned to Leon. Cloud was glaring, No, I just want to kill you….
“Cloud, I don’t believe you.”
Cloud turned to her, “Huh-What-Why not?”
“Well, first off, you answered me with ‘I guess’ and second… Who could be ashamed of such a beautiful man?!” Yuffie exclaimed gesturing her arms out to Leon.
Cloud flinched again and sighed, “Well, I really don’t care what you think. Now…we need to get going…”
Cloud turned and Yuffie ran in front of him, holding her arms out to stop him, “No Cloud. I’m letting you leave with this man, unless I have proof he’s your boyfriend.”
Cloud rolled his eyes as he replied, “What do you want? Photographic evidence?”
“No, no. I’m not gunna ask that much. Just one simple gesture of love is all.”
“Eh?” Cloud asked, looking to her from the corner of his eye.
Yuffie gripped her arms behind her back, as she rocked on her heels, and a smirk grew on her lips, “Kiss him.”
Cloud blinked as his eyes widened in disbelief, before he abruptly dropped his head submission. Of course one of my few remaining friends is a major yaoi fan…
Cloud lifted his head slightly, “So what’re you going to do if I refuse and leave anyways?”
“…Call the cops.”
“…You can’t be serious.” Cloud said placing a hand to his head in annoyance.
“Serious as a heart attack, Cloud. Now…” Yuffie pulled out her cell and dialed the number, then held it so Cloud could see but it was still out of his reach. “Do it, or as soon as I press call I’ll have the police on the phone and I’ll have your sexy friend here arrested.”
Cloud glared at her, “Fine!” Then he turned and grabbed Leon roughly by the back of his neck and pulled him down into a chased kiss. Leon’s eyes had widened initially but went back to normal as their lips made contact. A neutral expression colored Leon’s face during the kiss as he watched Cloud’s tensely closed eyes.
An undesired thought crossed Cloud’s mind when he initiated the kiss, which caused the kiss to last longer than he intended it to: …his lips are soft…
Cloud pulled away from Leon, not even allowing a single glace at him and turned to face Yuffie, “There, can we go now?”
“Nooo, that was a sucky kiss. Give him some tongue action!”
Cloud just started at Yuffie in astonishment before recovering and turning to Leon, “Do you even have a car?”
Leon looked to Cloud for a moment before turning his head, shrugging, “Sort of…”
Cloud raised an eyebrow, “Sort of, what the heck does that mean?”
Leon turned and walked over to the funeral coach park near by. Cloud recognized this coach as being the one used to carry Aerith’s casket. Cloud frowned slightly and followed Leon over. Leon got in and Cloud leaned into the open window.
“…Did you steal this?”
Leon placed a finger to his own lips and then used the same to point over to the passengers seat, “Get in.”
“CLOUD WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?”
Cloud shivered uncomfortably and hurried over and got into the car. Buckling Cloud asked again, “Did you?!”
Leon turned to Cloud, but before he could reply rustling was herd in the back, along with, “Mmm! Mmmm!”
They both turned to find a chubby middle-aged man in only a wife beater and white cotton boxers covered with red hearts, hogtied and gagged, in the back seat.
Cloud turned from the man to Leon, “What the hell?!” gesturing with his arms to the poor man tied up in the back.
Leon turned to Cloud, with his ever-unchanging neutral expression, “What?”
“What!? What the hell-…err, L…Leon…?”
Leon raised an eyebrow to Cloud in response to pause and to the uncertain way he pronounced his name.
Cloud shook off his own uncertainty of the brunet’s name and continued,
“Anyhow…What the hells-a-matter with you!? Did you tie up this guy and…” Cloud stopped and looked the brunet up and down, noticing how the cloths were still just a little too wide for the man, “And…steal his clothes? What are you, some kind of serial-stalking-hobo? What did he ever do to you!? For the matter…what the hell did I do!? Why are you stalking me? What do you want? Why did you attack the poor hogtied man in the back? What are you some kind of nudist who wanted to come back to society and attacked the first guy you saw for clothes cause you burned all yours? And what would you want with me? I’m not going to help you, you Freak!”
Leon cut him off there, by holding up a hand to silence Cloud, and began to speak, "Alright, shut up and listen. First off: I am not a nudist or a...whatever else you called me. Second: Who cares about that guy?” Leon said gesturing to the hogtied-and-gagged man in the back, with his thumb, “Yes I stole his clothes, big deal, I needed cloths and its not like you know him or really care. And third: if you really want to know why I was sent to you, you’ll shut up and give me your address so that we can have somewhere private to talk. And then I’ll tell you everything. Deal?”
Cloud stared at Leon for a moment before settling back down in his seat. After a moment of silence passed Cloud replied softly, “12 Radiant Drive…”
A ghost of a smile touched the brunet’s lips and he turned from Cloud to start the car.
-oOo-
They pulled up alongside a tall brick apartment building, which was closely netted within the city.
“This the place?” the brunet asked, shutting off the ignition, and turning to Cloud.
Cloud continued to stare out the window at the cold, lonely building that was his home, his cage, and the only place left for him to go…
He closed his eyes and sighed, “Yeah…this is it.”
They exited the car and as Leon moved by the blonde to go into the building. Cloud caught him by arm as he passed, stopping him. “Wait.”
Leon turned to him, “What?”
Cloud gave him an incredulous look before replying, “’What?’ What about the funeral couch driver? You’re just going to leave him there? Tied up, in his underwear, in the backseat of his work vehicle?”
The brunet’s cold eyes moved from Cloud to the said vehicle, “Oh…right.”
Leon moved passed Cloud to the vehicle, and Cloud released him as he went.
Leon opened the door to the back of the coach to where alleged man was promptly kicking at the far end window, trying desperately to either escape or get help. Both seeming rather futile at this point; for one, Leon was here to free him and second, even if he weren’t, no one would come around to free the man, the blonde lived in a more calm area of the medium populated city not to mention the light drizzle from above that would prove to become worse as the day wore on, would keep any other bystanders inside. In short, it was a shitty day and not a soul would be found wandering these streets in this weather to help some guy trapped in a funeral coach of all places. Yes, what this man was attempting was rather hopeless.
“Hey.” Leon called to the man in his low neutral voice. The man jumped at the sound and slowly turned to see to whom the voice belonged. At his first glance of the once naked man that had attacked him earlier, his eyes widened and he began to panic.
Leon sighed touching his forehead lightly with one hand out of annoyance. Then he looked back to the panicking man, “Hey! Shut the hell up!”
The man froze looking to Leon with terror filled eyes. Leon gave the man an annoyed look and then rolled his eyes as he responded, “Oh don’t give me that look. Now… I’m going to cut you loose, and you will not inform the police or anyone else, for the matter, what happened… Got it?!”
The man jumped and jerked his head quickly to nod his response.
Cloud sighed, “Be reasonable Leon. You probably already have this guy’s job in jeopardy, don’t make it seem like he was messing around.”
Leon leaned back out of the door a bit to turn to Cloud, “Eh?”
Cloud sighed again and titled his head as he looked back to Leon, “Ohh C’mon Leon! Don’t tell me it won’t look bad if this guy show back up to work with no explanation for disappearing from the funeral for over half an hour.”
”Fine…” Leon grumbled, turning back to the petrified man. “Look, you can use the same story if you want but don’t you dare give an anyone my description or name or I will kill you.”
The man’s eyes widened. Sighing, Cloud just shook his head.
What an idiot…
Leon went into the back and began to untie the fidgeting man as quickly as he could. Dropping the final rope to the side, he tore the tape from the man’s face.
“Ow!” the man yelped touching his face were it had begun to burn from the removal of the tape.
“Sorry.” Leon responded to the man with no feeling, discarding the tape to the floor.
“Now look,” Leon said as he turned back to the man, “the keys are still in the ignition and you’re free to go. I’m sorry, but I wont be returning these cloths for I have none…”
Leon paused for a moment, then moved to remove the over coat. “Here.” Leon said handing the coat back to the shaken man, “You can have this back…” Leon waited while the man put his coat back on before moving back to exit the car, but paused before he shut the door and leaned back in, “Sorry for the trouble.”
Leon shut the door and turned to Cloud, “Feel better?” he half asked, turning to go into the building.
“What? Me feel better? You shouldn’t have done it in the first place!” Cloud called to Leon, running to the building after him.
-oOo-
Cloud pulled his apartment door shut behind him and looked up to converse with Leon. But before he could even utter a word, Leon had pinned him by the shoulders to the door he had shut only a moment ago. Leaning in close, his eyes were locked with Cloud’s as he asked, “So you want to know why I’m here? What I meant when I said 'I was sent here to return your will to live'?”
Cloud watched the swirling grey/blue color of the eyes staring straight into his…
“What…oh. Yeah, tell me.”
Leon watched Cloud a moment longer then he closed his eyes. In a flash, black wings protruded out from behind Leon. Cloud gasped from the site. The wings twitched slightly and then stretched their full length (that Cloud assumed to be over 10 feet) before returning to a resting position on its master’s back.
“I…”
Cloud’s attention moved back to Leon at the sound of his voice.
He didn’t look well. He was pale and sweating slightly as he tried to catch his breath. The wings seemed to be putting a lot of strain on him.
“I…am a sent angel…I was sent to you…to save your life, for you have lost your will to live after losing so many of your loved ones…” Leon paused, lowering his head, breathing deeply, appearing to try and catch his breath.
“Sent…by who?” Cloud asked after a moment.
Leon lifted his sweat stained face to Cloud and replied, “By a higher being…perhaps you would call it a God…”
Cloud paused for a moment scrunching his face, “So, what? Is God creating some sort of suicidal hot line?”
Leon looked astounded at Cloud for a moment before placing a hand to his head in exasperation and replying, “No, you idiot. They’re trying to give you a second chance.”
“But, wait…” just as Cloud was gathering more questions to ask, he noticed Leon falter and fall to the ground. “Leon!”
Cloud attempted to catch the brunet but only succeeded in falling with him.
“Oww…” Cloud said rubbing his head, which he had hit against the doorframe as he fell. He looked down to find Leon collapsed in his lap. Cloud looked at him thoughtfully,
“A ’sent angel’, huh?” Cloud stated, lightly brushing a few hairs out of Leon’s face, “What the hell does that mean? …How do you plan on saving me?”
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